Phrosinella (Asiometopia) tadzhika (Rohdendorf, 1935)

Asiometopia tadzhika Rohdendorf, 1935: 127 [in key]; 1971b: 130 [♂ ♀].

Asiometopia tadzhika: Charykuliev, 1965: 16 [habits]; Verves, 1986: 88 [catalogue]; Chao and Zhang, 1998: 1532 [♂ ♀ in key, faunistic].

Phrosinella tadzhika: Fan and Pape, 1996: 241, [faunistic]; Pape, 1996: 125 [catalogue]; Kara and Pape, 2002: 292 [faunistic]; Koçak and Kemal, 2013: 137; 2015: 347 [faunistic].

Holotype (male): Uzbekistan, Bukhara Region, between Jargak & Sarat Lyalyk. Deposited in ZIN.

Distribution: Palearctic: China (Neimenggu, Xinjiang); Tajikistan; Turkmenia; Turkey (Konya, Tokat); Uzbekistan.

Habits: Psammophilous species; developmental time in burrows of sphecid wasp Bembicinus asiaticus from neonatal 1st stage larva to eclosion of adult flies in June– July occurs during 13–18 days. ♀ bears the larvae at victim of wasp ( Cicadellidae) when host carries paralyzed leafhopper into burrow (Charykuliev, 1965).